Donald “Childish Gambino” Glover made history Sunday at the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, becoming the first African American to win Outstanding Director for a Comedy Series for FX’s “Atlanta,” and also taking home Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

“If you listen closely you can hear all of Atlanta screaming right now,” Sylvia Obell wrote in BuzzFeed following the announcement.

Another historic first at the Emmys went to Lena Waithe, who won best writing for a comedy series for the “Thanksgiving” episode of “Master of None,” along with co-writer Aziz Ansari. Waithe’s win made her the first black person to win in the category and also the first black woman to be nominated in the category, which Ansari won last year.

The only other time a black actor won best lead actor in a comedy was Robert Guillaume in 1985 for “Benson.” Just three black directors have previously won — in the drama category (Thomas Carter, “Equal Justice”; Eric Laneuville, “I’ll Fly Away”; and Paris Barclay, “NYPD Blue”), Washington Post reported.

Glover was up against comedy actor Jeffrey Tambor, whose work as Pfefferman patriarch-turned-matriarch Maura on Amazon dramedy “Transparent” earned him the trophy the last two years.

Glover was also competing for the Emmy with William H. Macy (“Shameless”), Anthony Anderson (“Black-ish), Aziz Ansari (“Master of None”), Zach Galifianakis (“Baskets”).

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